The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1887-10-06

lof Tie euucallOn ana amel1Orati0n OF the In
dustriOus and their families. (Che rs.)
THE FLAG INCIDENT.
As to the third. How they seized upon
the flag incident to raise a thunderous outcry
against the South The incident was as
simple as it was harmless. These fages are
OF no sort of consequence. except as symbols
of conflict the memory of which should be
buried with its heroes in the graves of the
dead past, as an indemnity for loss and
security for good fellowship.
Father If Mercy! Is there to be no sur
cease of this strife-worse than that of bayo-
net and gun? Why, gentlemen, for fourteen
years labored in Congress to create general
amnesty, and on one notable occasion such
bill was reported with the unanimous CON-
sent of the committee on rules, of which Mr..
twenty years labored to repeal the iron-clad
oath, and succeeded only three years ago.
The oath, with its long rigmarole, was only
to be taken by the loyal, so called, while the
simple oath to the Constitution was taken by
the disloyal! Uaughter.) At last its ab-
surdity led to its repeal in spite of the spites
of Captain Boutele and the Maine members,
who opposed repeal because it was one of the
sacred memories of the war. (Cheers and
Laughter)
The bills of pains and penalties against the
disloyal offered by the Republicans, and one
especially severe by General Butler, modelled
on an old English law against Rob Roy and
the Scotch rebeis-these failed, as they were
bills of amnesty without the oblivion-a
Lethe nf Death and not a clear running
river-Patriotism.
Time rolls along A quarter of century
elapses! A new generation appears Slavery
is dead! Slaves are counted one for one in
the representation. The amendments of the
Constitution are unquestioned. The South
is fraternal; they meet in one common Con-
gress; they vote pensions to their late ene-
mics; they meet together, as at Gettysburg,
upon the old fields of strife, to renew their
pledges to united country-are proud to
recognize the sentiment of Cicero - one
thought for the Republic. The flags of the
battle lie mouldering in the attics of the War
Department A tender-illegal, but gener-
ous-is made of these now symbols OF the
unhappy su:te, when 10! cataclysm that
has no parallel for violence, noise ard quake
since the world began. A party without an
issue, party without a hope, seizes on this
innocent and clement thought to arouse into
flames the embers, most fireless, of sectional
hate. l can find no parallel or illustration
for the unseemly performance. beg pardon.
l have one.
DONKEYS IN POLITICS
Last summer it was my pleasure to live in
one of the isles OF the Princes. 1t is called
Prinkipo. 1t is few miles below Constsnti
nOple in the sea of Marmora. 1t is a sort of
Saratoga for pleasure and health seekers, set
on mountainous island of pines-a Para
dise-a new South, bursting out of the old
and harried Propontis fhere was one draw
back to the pleasures of Prinkipo. The isle,
like that in Shakespeare's Tempest" was
''full of strange noises''-not the nightingale
in the evening, nor the cocks at dawn, nor
the shepherds or the venders of fish, nor the
dry cicada, nor the flap of the American flag
in front of our Legation. These were pleas
ures, and. they did not interrupt my morning
dreams; b. hark when the sun paints in
gold and purple the Asian mountains, 1 hear
an equivocal sort of bruit. Is it the distant
thunder OF Jove from Mt. Olympus. in sight
of cur isle? Is it the rolling of the Ismid
train across the channel It starts ATARI. 1t
approachesl 1t is-No? Yes? 1t is the
grand diapason of the jsckasses (Roa=s of
prolonged laughter.) 1t frights the isle from
It's propriety.
Be it known that the isle is full Of donkeys
They carry water and vegetables-and tour
ists-up and down and over the mountains
L am not unfriendly to the donkey. He has
good name for patience and industry. l
was familiar with them in and out OF Con-
gress l admire their courage They can